The games where nostalgia goggles are no longer effective.

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Nostalgia can blind you from a lot of things and can keep you playing a game that you wouldn't enjoy without that thrill of going back in time. Reliving your childhood can balance out some games that haven't aged well but there is a limit. When do the goggles fail?

For me it was playing my first RPG over again.

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I started playing for the memories of being shown an RPG by my sister for the first time. The grinding I forgot. The combat is unexciting. I stopped playing the moment I realized I couldn't recapture that feeling I had when I was playing it as a kid. I've been spoiled by better games and I have equal nostalgia for Super Mario RPG.

Maybe I'll play through Mystic Quest more if I can bear it. I just got so bored grinding in the challenge areas. The nostalgia just doesn't cover up the games flaws anymore for me.

Well, your turn. Any similar experiences?

 

[Kahunaburger]

Jade "stunlocking, half-baked morality systems, and arguable racism" Empire.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Old MMOs, especially stuff like Everquest.

It's one thing to wax nostalgic about high barriers to entry, crippling depth, draconian death penalties and an opaque UI and how mastering it all made your tiny successes that much more meaningful. But if I logged into a game today and died, thus losing a level's worth of experience and needing to play for two weeks to get it back, I'd put a shoe through the window.

 

[endtherapture]

Little Big Adventure.

The control scheme was impossibly hard to master and I quit in the second screen.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Tomb Raider, those triangular tits were all I had as a kid but now I'm spoiled by all sorts jiggly goodness.

 

[Fishyash]

Sonic adventure...

No amount of nostalgia can justify dying in the middle of a loop for no reason 10 times in a row.

 

[Swifty714]

Probably for me, Yu-Gi-oh Duelist of the roses.

I was huge fan when i was 10, so i got the game and played the hell out of it. I recently re-bought it, expecting to love it again, but it just didn't feel the same. The games where suddendly extremely short, and their was a single duelist who was impossible to beat.

Another game was Runescape. I can't start a new account anymore, and when i do, i can'r recapture the feeling of getting that new tier of gear and being excited. Just number and stat increases to me now.

 

[jessiebrown85]

OH BOY! where to start! ALL Nintendo 64 games, i had one....now look at me, ps3, xbox 360, wii!
i know they've remade games, but still, look at the old ones. NO! but i digress.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Jade "stunlocking, half-baked morality systems, and arguable racism" Empire.

...racism? I don't remember that part....unless you are talking about the setting in general. Not quite fair, since "cliche" doesn't necessarily equate to "stereotyping". But yeah, the combat isn't nearly as fun as I remember it being.

Any, I vote Final Fantasy 7. Its a good RPG, don't get me wrong, but I've become so incredibly spoiled by all the advancements video games have made since then (Voice acting, Music quality, translation consistency, graphics, etc.) that it's really hard to imagine how I ever thought it was so great. It's so obviously a middle child, stuck between the 2D games and the better 3D games.

Baldur's Gate 1, as well. 2 is fantastic, but 1 suffers from a shit ton of fetch quests, terrible pacing, and is a generally dull experience altogether. Not bad, really, just incredibly dull.

For a more recent one, Mass Effect 1. The writing holds up, and the main story missions are fun, but the rest of the game is just a huge mishmash of bad ideas and half-formed concepts. For all that they "removed" to streamline 2, it was a huge improvement in nearly all regards. And this coming from a person who, until recently, held Mass Effect 1 on an untouchable pedestal.